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The B.C. Supreme Court agreed when it found that the real issue "is not whether the [anti-choice students] may hold the beliefs they do, or express those beliefs by any means they see fit, but rather whether they can force, in the name of religious freedom, every student on campus to fund them to do so."

Not all speech is equal. Free speech carries responsibilities, as well as rights. One of the responsibilities of the exercise of free speech occurs when we make choices about what positions to support - and what positions to abjure. Student unions are free to make such choices and have every right to say no.

The right wing has been relentless in misrepresenting the concept and interpretation of "freedom of speech".